What is the size of a soda can?

-one of my favorite lines from the old "Inspector Morse" series is when Lewis gets some beer for them and Morse says in disgust , quite plaintively, "

tinned lager

, Lewis!"*

-our local recycle center categorizes one bin as "tin cans", I guess it's confusing to folks to do anything else

-my wife can't tell the difference between aluminum cans and the other cans. That I find remarkable. 

-I think I screwed up with my attempt at humor upthread. I know Michael does not like to be called out in his own website [I still consider it that] but I did it anyway, perhaps the humor was flat. My apologies, Michael, if you are reading this. 

-I feel obligated now to back up what I said, as a way of making up for it, so here comes: 

-aluminum cans

Quote: https://bigthink.com/dangerous-ideas/14-recycling-is-a-waste

the reality is that aluminum cans, priced between one and five cents, are on average the most valuable recyclable in your trash. (Producing aluminum cans from recycled aluminum saves about 90-95% the energy used to make aluminum cans from scratch...)

-I'm having difficulty backing my statement about cardboard recycling so far, it's hard to find much on the issue of subsidy using google . I'll have to say 'I can't prove it but I suspect' it normally has to be subsidized. However, it seems that in recent times, China has paid good prices for it. Now that this has stopped, I have to assume they over-valued it. Here's one reason, and I have noted that now our local recycling people are saying "no pizza boxes",

Quote: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/28/why-trash-is-no-longer-cash-for-recycling-biz.html

Just one pizza box in a cardboard recycling pile can ruin the whole batch, since oils in it can’t be separated from the paper fiber.

-Yes, China has put the brakes on. 

Quote: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/23/recycling-crisis-has-come-holidays/2054199002/

This holiday season collides with what has become known as the great recycling crisis. Earlier this year, China, which for years has been America's go-to nation for processing recyclables into new boxes, started rejecting all but the cleanest, purest loads.

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off topic, but my favorite line is when Morse gets a call from his old college and, plaintively again, reacts "My Alma Mater? Reduced to this?

telephone solicitation?

the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!”   She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder

some thoughts-one of my favorite lines from the old "Inspector Morse" series is when Lewis gets some beer for them and Morse says in disgust , quite plaintively, ", Lewis!"*-our local recycle center categorizes one bin as "tin cans", I guess it's confusing to folks to do anything else-my wife can't tell the difference between aluminum cans and the other cans. That I find remarkable.-I think I screwed up with my attempt at humor upthread. I know Michael does not like to be called out in his own website [I still consider it that] but I did it anyway, perhaps the humor was flat. My apologies, Michael, if you are reading this.-I feel obligated now to back up what I said, as a way of making up for it, so here comes:-aluminum cans-I'm having difficulty backing my statement about cardboard recycling so far, it's hard to find much on the issue of subsidy using google . I'll have to say 'I can't prove it but I suspect' it normally has to be subsidized. However, it seems that in recent times, China has paid good prices for it. Now that this has stopped, I have to assume they over-valued it. Here's one reason, and I have noted that now our local recycling people are saying "no pizza boxes",-Yes, China has put the brakes on.

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